Caretaker
Look after property and facilities on a premises.
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- What's it like to be a Caretaker?
- How to become a Caretaker
- Latest Caretaker jobs
- Top skills and experience for Caretakers
- Is Caretaker the right role for you?
- Caretaker role reviews
What's it like to be a Caretaker?
Caretakers play an important role in maintaining and ensuring the upkeep of buildings, grounds, facilities and assets in settings such as schools, community centres, aged care homes, flats and hotels, keeping them secure, clean and well-maintained. Caretakers often live on site, undertaking basic handyman work and garden maintenance as well as cleaning and preparing rooms and common areas for guests and tenants.
Tasks and duties
- Maintaining the grounds, including watering, weeding and mowing lawns.
- Maintaining equipment, including minor repairs to fixtures and fittings.
- Cleaning the building common areas including mopping and sweeping the front entrance, maintaining driveways, footpaths, stairwells, corridors and letterboxes, and removing rubbish.
- Handling emergency after hours calls.
- Providing monthly reports to stakeholders.
- Coordinating contractors and tradespeople.
- Conducting property inspections.
- Undertaking compliance audits and asset inspections.
How to become a Caretaker
You don’t need a formal qualification to become a Caretaker and some skills can be learned on the job. Experience and/or qualifications in building maintenance, cleaning, handyman work, plumbing, electrics or gardening may be beneficial.
- Consider completing a relevant qualification, such as a Certificate III in Carpentry (CPC30220) or Certificate III in Cleaning Operations (CPP30321).
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Caretaker employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Caretaking
Gardening
Cleaning
Grounds Maintenance
Lawn Mowing
Property Maintenance
Professional Housekeeping
Handy Person Duties
Landscaping
Building Maintenance
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Latest Caretaker reviews
Nov 2024
A fun and learning job with some challenges along the way along
Experience1 – 4 years
Organisation sizeSmall (1-19 employees)
SpecialisationSelf Employment
The good thingsBeing a Care Taker is usually very fun. You get to spend time with kids and do fun things with them. When you are the Care Taker of a certain family you really get to know the kids and you get to see...
The challengesSometimes it can be difficult. Every kid you babysit is different. Sometimes they have an age where they can throw some bad tantrums and sometimes brothers and sisters fight. Then it is your responsib...
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May 2021
Fantastic experience that has given me many work skills above and beyond.
Experience5 – 9 years
Organisation sizeSmall (1-19 employees)
SpecialisationPromotional Manager
The good thingsThe great things about working in Hospitality and Tourism as a Caretaker and Promotions Manager is you are constnantly meeting new people and every day is diffetent. It gives you moments when you feel...
The challengesThe challenges are , well always being on call when it is your day,s to work and your hours are long , living on site i found was best as in the Caravan Park Hospitality and Accommodation area you are...
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